"wood spirit" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wood spirits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wood spirit (countable and uncountable, plural wood spirits)
  1. (countable) A dryad or other spiritual being associated with forests, woods, or trees. Tags: countable Synonyms (spiritual being): dryad Translations (spiritual being): ရုက္ခစိုး (rukhka.cui:) (Burmese), bosgeest [masculine] (Dutch), woudgeest [masculine] (Dutch), metsänhenki (Finnish), esprit de bois [masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-wood_spirit-en-noun-oZEp3KSH Disambiguation of 'spiritual being': 98 2 Disambiguation of 'spiritual being': 98 2
  2. (uncountable, often the wood spirit) Methanol, a type of alcohol. Tags: uncountable Synonyms (alcohol): methanol, methol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirits, carbinol
    Sense id: en-wood_spirit-en-noun-eX70NrVe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95 Disambiguation of 'alcohol': 0 100

Inflected forms

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